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May 20th, 2011 | 
Author: Live TV by Ustream
The center of the movement is very much Puerta del Sol, where protesters are now camping out overnight just like they did in Tahrir Square in Egypt. The protesters claim they will stay in the square until after regional elections this Sunday, according to Der Spiegel. The protest movement has been declared illegal by the government, over fears it may influence the result of the elections. The traditional media is allegedly under-covering the story.
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Tags: High Unemployment, Protests in Spain | 
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The Swearing In Ceremony for Carlos H. Cascos (R) as Cameron County Judge will be streamed live at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rgvtptv
beginning at about 5:45 PM on Monday, January 3, 2011. The event is scheduled to take place from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
That’s the plan, anyway. I’ll get to the courthouse at least an hour before the ceremony so I can set up. I’ve been assured that an IT guy will be on hand to provide me with the necessary network priviliges to stream the event.
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Tags: Carlos H. Cascos, Swearing In Ceremony |
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I streamed the Tax Day Rally held at Linear Park in Brownsville, Texas, via UStream.tv with my trusty laptop and webcam. The webcam was generously provided by Harlingen Tea Party Association member and proud U.S. Marine Art Cohan. (There is no such thing as an ex-Marine or a former Marine.)
The streaming was an experiment. I made up the method as I went along. So, naturally, mistakes were made and lessons were learned, such as:
- Always position the equipment directly in front of the speaker.
- Always take advantage of whatever electricity is available.
- Limit movement. Perform slow pans only, and do a pan every few minutes.
- Use a tripod.
- Always enlist the help of a friend who can “tune in” to your broadcast to critique audio and video quality, offer suggestions for commentary, etc.
- Plan for rotten weather.
- Storyboard the event with index cards. Each card represents a fixed amount of time – 10 minutes, 20 minutes – and contains topics to discuss during that time interval.
- Take advantage of the online poll feature. Conduct a new poll every half-hour or so.
- Take advantage of the online text feature. Scroll text that introduces each speaker, along with relevant websites, Facebook and Twitter URLs, etc.
- Don’t mess with the video or audio settings. Keep everything at “excellent.”
I’ll do better next time. The following videos are mostly audible, but the video quality is pretty bad throughout most of the second video because I fiddled with the framerate, thinking I could conserve some precious bandwidth that way (I didn’t).
Dr. Lawrence Gelman speaks in the third video. I caught most or all of it (can’t remember), but the battery ran out before Bob Jones spoke. Oh well . . .
UPDATE: I finally moved the videos out of the camera and strung them together to make something resembling a “how-to” video. It would really have helped if I had storyboarded the event with index cards. As it turned out, I was just narrating on the fly and ran out of stuff to talk about after the first few minutes. I’m more of a “behind-the-scenes” guy, anyway.
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Tags: Tax Day Rally |
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I am at Linear Park right now, testing out the wireless capability. It’s not great, but it might be good enough for streaming. It’ll be herky-jerky, but maybe I can tweak the video settings on the UStream console. I’m really amazed that Brownsville offers WiFi access, such as it is.
I’ve set up a UStream.tv channel – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/brotaxdayrally. I’m going to give it a shot and try to stream the event live tomorrow.
-Chris Rowan